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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Misha Warbanski

  • Waxing poetic about trash

    This is cross-posted from Misha’s blog. Can anyone remember back in 2007 when the City of Montreal handed out 100,000 pocket ashtrays? Yeah…...

  • One great city, one great river trail

     (A dispatch from Winnipeg) The Winnipeg River Trail winds its way down the frozen Assiniboine (photo: misha warbanski) One of my favourite things about...

  • Montreal housing under the microscope

    Image by Sasha Plotnikova for The McGill Daily The McGill Daily’s special issue on Housing is on newsstands and they’ve invented a new word...

  • Toronto Tetris

    I know this is about Toronto, but I thought it was cute.

  • Grumbling about Griffintown

    A couple big things happened at the Sud-Ouest borough council meeting tonight. The most important: borough Mayor Jacqueline Monpetit annouced a series of...

  • Griffintown: Meetings and more meetings

    I was at the Sud-Ouest Borough council meeting tonight where they announced a series of public consultations on the Griffintown project. The first will be...

  • Guerilla advertising?

    Hello readers, I need your help! On my bike ride home from campus this evening, I passed a PT cruiser on the corner of Metcalfe and de Maisonneuve. There...

  • News from around the town

    Here are some stories from other media that Spacing Montreal finds interesting. Good news for car owners CBC reports the city will let people park for...

  • Keepin’ it Green

    Montreal has launched a new protection plan for Mount Royal. It’s effective immediately once it goes through council this week. Helen Fotopolous...

  • Marching on climate change

    Saturday is the Global Day of Action Against Climate change. A demonstration starts at 2:30 p.m. from Dorchester Square and will move through downtown to...

  • Community groups want to reduce the number of cars in Montreal

    The Montreal Gazette has a report today about the Coalition for the Reduction of Montreal Traffic, which represents some 42 community groups. They say...

  • What? You’ve never seen a bike in the winter?

    Snowed-in cars on Beaudry Street. Don’t feel like shoveling? Take your bike! Photo by Misha Warbanski I like the community spirit sparked by the...